Sorry about not updating yesterday and not even giving a warning. As I mentioned before it makes me really happy to know people like to read my writing! Jappanese people introduce themselves last names first, and are called by there last names until they are friendly enough to be on first name basis. So to clear up any confusion. Thank to Eca-chii, You Me and Obsession, Sunset siren curse, BBQkitten, and 918lucy. So the song of the chapter is More than it seems by Kutless. Disclaimer, song, then chapter sound like a plan?
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Is my imagination running away
Or is this all really happening to me
Am I a prince in a far away land filled with fantasy
Where is reality and what are the actions that will define who I am
I am holding onto the visions I've seen of what I could be
It's what I should be
More than it seems these dreams (show me the way to these dreams)
Blur reality's line ('til there's nothing left of me)
If I could believe the dreams aside(show me the way to these dreams)
I am more capable than it seems
Passing through darkness into my own world
Will I be more than when I left (than when I left)
Never letting go of the lessons I learned
This will make a change
A change within me
More than it seems these dreams (show me the way to these dreams)
Blur reality's line ('til there's nothing left of me)
If I could believe the dreams aside(show me the way to these dreams)
I am more capable than it seems
This time I won't run way
I found the strength to face life's long days
This time I won't run away
More than it seems these dreams (show me the way to these dreams)
Blur reality's line ('til there's nothing left of me)
If I could believe the dreams aside(show me the way to these dreams)
I am more capable than it seems
'Til there's nothing left of me
Show me the way to these dreams.
Driving just at the speed limit, Takano really wanted to push down on the gas as hard as he could, but getting pulled over for speeding certainly wouldn't help Ritsu. He could start to see the signs that pointed towards the hospital.
There was a red light and he gritted his teeth in anger. He knew that with every passing second Ritsu was losing the battle for his life. Takano spared a look at the small man beside him. His breathing was still fast and shallow, and he appeared to be sweating. Ritsu eyes were tightly closed.
Takano never really noticed how small his lover was. It was a wonder that he had been able to fight this long. The light changed to green. Takano eased the car into motion.
Figuring out how exactly he was going to park his car and take Ritsu in at the same time. He figured that Ritsu was more important and he could move his car when he was sure that Ritsu wasn't going to die on him. Throwing the car into park he hustled out of the car and to the passenger side.
Picking up the unconscious man in his arms. He walked steadily into emergency. The receptionist took one look at the pair and called for a stretcher. He layed Ritsu down on it and tried to answer the nurses questions.
"What is the patients name?" She asked. She was a young nurse with long black hair pulled into a bun. She had kind caring brown eyes and was short.
" Onodera Ritsu." He said distractedly.
"Onodera, the last name?" The nurse clarified.
"Yes.""Answer to the best of your ability, what happened?"
"I don't know, all I know is he was barely conscious when I found him curled up on his bathroom floor." Takano said.
"Any prior indications before you found him?"
"He wasn't very focused this morning and he left work early saying that he wasn't feeling well. Then he wouldn't answer his phone." Takano rattled off.
The young nurse nodded making notes of all that was said. "Do you know if he's allergic to anything, medical or food wise?"
"Not that I'm aware of."
"It he taking any prescribed medicine?"
"When I found him, this was laying on the skin. I guess its prescribed." He handed over the small orange pill bottle.
"How long has he been suffering from depression?" The nurse took the pill bottle for doing some checking later.
"That's the first I heard of it." Takano said, not letting his concern show.
The nurse nodded. She gave him a sad smile and said "You can move your car. The doctors will be working on getting him stable."
Takano nodded not really wanting to leave but he ended up parking his car and walked briskly back into the emergency room.
The receptionist looked up. She was an older lady, maybe in her forties. Her dark brown hair was thinning and beginning to gray around the temples. Also she was a little on the pudgy side. Her eyes and mouth showed wrinkles of laughing and smiling to much "Can I have you sign in please?" She said in a friendly tone of voice.
Takano took the outstretched clipboard and signed his name. The receptionist took back looking at the name and arching a styled eyebrow.
"Takano Masamune?" She repeated.
"Yes, ma'am."
"You had no idea that he was in this state correct?" She asked.
"Not one clue." He sighed.
"Then I can trust you to contact the proper people, such as his family?" She questioned.
"I can, but why?" Takano wondered confused.
"He had you listed as an emergency contact so we can call the correct people, but its unnecessary. Plus we are a little busy at the moment."
Takano looked out to the waiting room, there was maybe twelve people there and three more behind him. He nodded to the receptionist. Walking to an empty chair with no one near it.
He sat down heavily in it. So many things had happened. But the one thing that was sticking out to him was he was listed on Ritsu's emergency contacts. He wondered why. But the fact that he was made him happier than anything. He had so many questions to ask, but he didn't know if he would get the chance to.
He must've fallen asleep, because the next thing he knew someone was shaking him. At first he thought it might be Onodera and that it was just a dream.
"Takano-san, wake up." Came a females voice.
Curious he opened his eyes. Sure enough there was a very beautiful female doctor in front of him. She was tall, slim, and he could tell well muscled as if she worked out. She had blonde hair that was pulled back into a French braid. Her blue eyes were clear and pure. She had a solemn look on her face, she somehow looked familiar.
"Ah, your up!" She exclaimed this time Takano heard the faint sound of an American accent.
"Yeah." He mumbled.
"That's good. I'm Doctor Farell. You came in with Onodera-san correct?" She asked.
He nodded. "How is he?"Doctor Farell, remained quiet. "Well?" Takano demanded
"He's alive. Any later and we wouldn't have been able to save him. But he's entered a coma." She said sadly.
Takano gave her an uncomprehending look. "What?"
"I'm sorry, but he'll just have to wake up on his own. I can take you to his room. If you'd like." She said sincerely.
If it was any other doctor Takano would've scoffed at the fake sincerity but the young doctor really seemed genuine.
"You're an ER doctor?" Takano asked. He didn't really care but he wanted to keep himself away from the possibility… No! He would not think like that.
"Yes an no." Doctor Farell said.
"That's two answers." Takano pointed out.
"Actually I'm a surgeon by trade but the ER doctor for this shift was unable to make it so I took over for him, I was on call anyway." She replied punching in the code to enter the actual ER.
"I see." Takano said. He was growing more and more anxious the closer he got to the room.
" Did your name by any chance change? You remind me of a classmate of mine."
"It did." He said noncommittally.
"You were Saga then?" She asked, keeping her face straight ahead.
"Yes. How'd you know?" He asked. Waiting for the door that they would stop at.
"I was in your graduating class." She said, nodding a greeting to another doctor.
"Really?" Takano asked surprised.
"Yeah, transferred from America. I had everyone call me Alice, even though its not the culture around here." She said.
As soon as she said that he remembered her. She was pretty even back then but she was always studying and watching people as if they were the most interesting thing in the world. Fitting she would become a surgeon.
Suddenly she stopped in front of a door the room number was 13. Turning around she held his gaze. "You best prepare yourself. Go in when your ready." She looked down at her pager. "Ah! I've got to go, trauma patient just came in!"
She walked down the way they came in a fast pace. Her braid bounding as she walked. Takano suddenly felt very alone. He looked at the door and then the handle.
Inhaling he walked into the room. Laying completely still on the hospital bed was Ritsu. He was paler than normal and there were several tubes connecting him to IV bags. In the corner there was a heart monitor, beeping loudly in this odd silence. The heart line looked like it was very faint.
Takano hauled one of the infamous hospital chairs over to the bedside and sat down in it. Taking Onodera's hand. Not even the slightest twitch. He could've been slumbering heavily, but Takano knew that the moment he did that he would've gotten some sort of reaction marking this as an unnatural sleep.
Takano sighed sadly. The heart monitor beeped steadily. It was grating on Takano's already thin nerves. "Onodera, I have no clue what to say in this situation, other than for maybe for the first time in my life I'm uncertain. Also I'm scared." He admitted.
No response other than the beeping of the heart monitor. He growled in the back of his throat and looked at the IV dripping steadily. He turned his attention back to the man laying unmoving next to him. His arm that was connected to the IV was on top of the blanket.
Takano looked at the appendage properly for the first time ever. There where thin white lines covering it. Some were vertical, others horizontal, and some were even diagonal. Takano wondered how much suffering a person would have to go through to harm themselves. How much pain would a person have to take to push them off the edge.
The heart monitor kept on beeping. Furrowing his brow Takano sighed. There was so much he wanted to say, but how much would Ritsu actually hear? He wanted to see the reaction and get the answers to his questions. He wanted to see Ritsu blush and yell whenever he said something that Ritsu deemed inappropriate. Most of all he wanted to see the green eyes that always showed so much emotion.
"Ritsu, I know that you probably won't hear this, or if you do if you'll remember it. I want you to wake up. I know I caused this but I want to be greedy. I want to hold you, feel your warmth, hear your constant complaining. I love you, Ritsu, so if by some chance you wake up, I will never leave your side."
Takano let out a yawn. The stress and worry that he had felt finally left him now that he knew that Ritsu was in no immediate danger and that he wasn't moving. He layed his head on his arm which was resting on the bed holding Ritsu's hand. In that position he fell into a restful sleep.
What he didn't here was the monitor contributing its part into the conversation by beeping a little louder and a little more certain than when he first walked in the room.
Well that was a very sentimental chapter. I had no idea I could write something like that, also I somehow managed to stretch this past the four chapter mark. I hope you guys don't mind. Also I have a question, answer in the reviews or however but how many of you expected the heart monitor to flat line? Man I feel bad for Takano. Don't worry about Alice either, I needed a doctor character and she kind of popped up, she's there for moral and medical support only. So bye for now!~IF